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Ask any Mine Manager about areas for improvement and Short Interval Control will almost certainly be near the top of their list. It’s one of the latest buzz words in mining, often paired with digital transformation and the internet of things.
Now ask them what short interval control means; you’ll likely get a different response from each Mine Manager. They may say it’s about reacting to issues in the last shift, finding an optimal short-term schedule, ensuring operators know what work needs to be done, or making sure everyone sticks to the plan.
Short interval control can mean many things, and, in fact, a solution for short interval control comprises many components. These include operational transparency, short-term scheduling and optimization, work execution, and production intelligence.
Over a series of blog posts, we’ll examine each of those components – all of which can be implemented at any time, in any order. In fact, that’s the shortcut to short interval control: you don’t have to implement the entire solution at once to achieve benefit.
describes short interval control as a process of “quick and focused reviews of performance data during the shift [to] enable mid-course corrections and immediate small-scale fixes that collectively result in significant improvements in performance.”
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Senior Portfolio Manager | Jessica is a product manager with more than 16 years of experience in industrial enterprise software. Her areas of expertise include product strategy and business value definition, with a focus in workforce management, short-term scheduling and optimization, and execution. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Jessica joined GEOVIA in 2017, leveraging her background in enterprise software solutions for mining and utilities in the GEOVIA Earth Resources Management discipline.